I believe that communication is a transdisciplinary field of study, which means that communication theories, methods, activities and practices shape and inform all other disciplines and subjects. Ours is an infinitely complex field of study because communication between and among people is an always evolving symbolic phenomenon. One reason I selected communication as a field of study is that it is sufficiently complex to embrace a lifetime of inquiry. As the philosopher Georges Gusdorf once put it, "Communication calls the world into being."
I am also a narrative ethnographer. I use qualitative methods—deep immersion in cultures, participant—observation, interviews, writing fieldnotes, and mining rhetorical and narrative data from historical archives-to construct personal accounts of the intersections of communication and cultures. The purpose of my research is to teach others through diverse cultural examples how they may choose to live.
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